Word: rhodesia
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...Cabinet, then fired four junior ministers. In all, 40 posts were involved in the shakeup. Out went Lord Soames, the leader of the House of Lords, Winston Churchill's son-in-law and a pillar of the Tory establishment, who as the last governor-general of Rhodesia had brought plaudits to the Thatcher government by skillfully guiding the former colony through its elections and emergence as independent Zimbabwe. Thatcher, who felt that Soames had ineptly handled a three-week civil servant strike, replaced him with Baroness Young, a life peeress and a personal friend, who becomes the first woman...
...support at Versailles, it's been the same story. As Andrew Greeley writes in his new book, The Irish Americans. "The American Irish were never able to persuade their government or their nation's cultural elite of the moral rightness of their cause. ...Concern for human rights in Rhodesia, Chile and Franco's Spain has in recent times all but obsessed the nation's intellectual and cultural elite. The issue of human rights in Ireland, however, even today scarcely gains any notice...
Despite mounting domestic unrest, however, South Africa is still far more stable than pre-Zimbabwe Rhodesia, where blacks succeeded in establishing a government in 1980. The country is also far better equipped to withstand international pressure intended to force it to change...
...stead, Crocker proposed that a constitutional convention, along the lines of the London conference t transformed Rhodesia into independent Zimbabwe, should be held prior to elections. The difference would be critical: under such a scheme, Namibia's predominantly white anti-SWAPO political parties, backed by South Africa, woulD be assured a role in a new Namibian government, even if they were defeated at the polls...
...feet. Last week Zimbabwe benefited from just such a display of compassionate check writing. In a remarkable pass-the-hat meeting in Salisbury, representatives of 36 nations-some of them not much better off than Zimbabwe itself-pledged nearly $1.4 billion in aid to the nation once known as Rhodesia. Even tiny, impoverished Sierra Leone weighed in with $90,000. But the pledge that probably pleased Zimbabwe most came from the U.S.: $225 million over the next three years. "The creation of Zimbabwe is one of the most remarkable political and diplomatic achievements of this generation," declared U.S. Delegate...